1990 DOliveira Sercial Vintage Madeira - dry
€ 257.00
Sercial Madeira from Pereira d'Oliveira, aged for 33 years in oak barrels. Dry Madeira wine made with Sercial with lively acidity. Bottling 2023.
Food-pairing
Lightly chilled as an aperitif with olives and almonds or with sushi, oysters, octopus carpaccio with tomato-coriander vinaigrette, salmon tartar, proscuitto with ham, crab & fresh tuna (sashimi).
Grapes: Sercial 100%
Sercial is traditionally the white variety used for the driest Madeira style. A sercial is always dry! This means that only at the end of the fermentation, when almost all sugars have been fermented, alcohol is added. The late grape variety is also called 'Esgana Cão' (dog strangler) because of its extremely high acidity in his youth. Because of that almost undrinkable acidity, sercial usually ripens quite long. Sercial comes from the highest vineyards in the south, about 600-800m or in the cooler North.
Alcoholcontent
20%
Bewaren en serveren
Always keep a Madeira wine upright.
Madeira's acids are so strong that they attack the cork if the bottle is stored horizontally
Serving at 16 °C
Madeira is a wine that has been aged for several years in an oxidative environment, after which it is bottled in a reductive environment. It is therefore useful to open the bottles a few hours in advance. The bottles can then be stored almost indefinitely, since the air no longer has any influence on Madeira wines. In fact, after months - if any - remainder, the wine tastes better than when you open the bottle.
Critics & Awards
18,5/20 - Grandes Escolhas Tasted: Dec 2024
Producer: D'Oliveira